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authorJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>2010-02-18 14:25:48 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-02-19 23:52:45 +0300
commit6c71b0ea761da416af54df4f72f48e71050cc012 (patch)
tree4d0f9a99669d79cf0f8a8bf162749ba15e23ff73 /drivers
parentc82c1dde3024715c4cd8b6dd8cc7c75d8d7d93c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6c71b0ea761da416af54df4f72f48e71050cc012.tar.xz
wl1271: Optimized RX path packet retrieval
Instead of acking RX packets read from the FW once all (of several possible) buffered packets are retrieved, ack packets one by one as they are read. This enables the FW to start receiving more packets from the network while the host read operation is still ongoing. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_rx.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_rx.c
index ca645f38109b..e8eee883848f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_rx.c
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ void wl1271_rx(struct wl1271 *wl, struct wl1271_fw_status *status)
wl->rx_counter++;
drv_rx_counter = wl->rx_counter & NUM_RX_PKT_DESC_MOD_MASK;
+ wl1271_spi_write32(wl, RX_DRIVER_COUNTER_ADDRESS,
+ wl->rx_counter);
}
-
- wl1271_spi_write32(wl, RX_DRIVER_COUNTER_ADDRESS, wl->rx_counter);
}